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NEC claimed it?s SX-9 as the fastest Supercomputer of the world
Oct 29: NEC has bowled over other Computer leader by showcasing SX-9 the most powerful supercomputer ever.
NEC is Japanese multinational IT Company headquartered in TOKYO, JAPAN. It provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government.
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According to Yoshikazu Maruyama, senior Vice President of NEC Corp, the SX-9 has been developed to meet the need for ultra-fast simulations of complex, large capacity scientific computing.
SX-9 is scheduled to go on display at an upcoming supercomputing convention at Nevada.
NEC claimed that the latest SX-9 supercomputer has a speed of 839 teraflops, each teraflop is a trillion calculations per second and is three times faster than SX-8 and is also energy efficient.
Maruyama was elated and said, “This is a superb product and we believe we are the top in this genre”.
Claiming to be the fastest vector-type supercomputer SX-9 model that is equipped with a central processing unit (CPU) core to process information at a maximum speed of 102.4 gigaflops!
NEC asserted that it features the first CPU that exceeds 100 gigaflops of peak vector performance. The company has claimed that when connected with up to 512 units, one unit of the SX-9, which can be provided with as many as 16 CPUs.
Presently IBM's BlueGene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is now No. 1 with a performance mark of 280.6 teraflops in the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers.
Supercomputers are used for giant calculations involving quantum mechanical physics, weather forecasting, climate research, computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, and crystals, physical simulations such as simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels, simulation of the detonation of nuclear weapons, and research into nuclear fusion, cryptanalysis.
The days ahead will tell if it get registered as the fastest supercomputer.